[Night Stalker]

I don't think it's the public school's responsibility to give "equal representation" though Cerek. Whatever people's opinion of Darwinism, it it based on scientific deduction, observation, and theory. Were as (IMO) creationism is an attempt to lend scientific credibility to the Genesis story. Darwinism is not tied to any religious belief system while creationism is entirely Christian.

We don't hear Budhist, Taoist, Muslim, Jewish, ect uprising that the schools teach something counter to their beliefs. They send their children to religious schools for their extra education. If parents don't want their kids to learn Darwinism, they should send them to parochial school.

I think the schools went to far into the "social" aspects of learning and got away from core skills. As a nation, we spend more per capita on education yet our public school children consistantly underperform compared to other nations. I think this a la carte, too much diverisification trend is part of the problem. I know this is kind of diverging abit, but I think that religion should be kept out of public schools. Not because I think that religion is bad, but because there are too many choices to address any effectively. That and I think that we try to place way to much of our education of our youth onto the schools. Parents are abdicting parenting and then wonder why their kids shoot up schools.

I know I kinda wandered around this topic. If anyone can find a point, please let me know! [img]tongue.gif[/img]